
In an ever-more insecure world, Canada’s federal government has announced it will
spend two per cent of its GDP
on military spending. That’s the standard that members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization all agreed to back in 2006, but Canada has long been a laggard, to the extent that other governments, particularly the United States, have browbeaten the country for its meagre military spending.
At present, Canada spends 1.37 per cent of GDP on the...
June 9, 2025 - 17:22 | Tyler Dawson | National Post
Growth in global oil demand for the rest of the year is expected to fall to one of its weakest levels since 2001, says research firm S&P Global, which has revised its price outlook for benchmark crude down to as low as the upper-US$40 mark.The United States in particular will face a sharper year-on-year decline in production than expected, S&P forecast in its latest research paper, released Monday. That’s in part owing to limping demand growth; only the 2008-09 financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 saw lower numbers.
June 9, 2025 - 17:18 | Emma Graney | The Globe and Mail
One victim, Tracy Robb, who supported Kaitlyn Braun through what turned out to be a fake pregnancy, says she hasn't been the same since.
June 9, 2025 - 17:11 | | CBC News - Canada
Torontonians will get to see the strawberry moon rising over southern Ontario on June 11, glowing low and golden in the summer sky. The best time to catch it will be 10 p.m. EST.
June 9, 2025 - 16:49 | Prisha Dev | Global News - Ottawa
Torontonians will get to see the strawberry moon rising over southern Ontario on June 11, glowing low and golden in the summer sky. The best time to catch it will be 10 p.m. EST.
June 9, 2025 - 16:49 | Prisha Dev | Global News - Canada
The RCMP’s “structural investigation” into whether Canadian citizens serving with the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza may have committed war crimes has sparked outrage in the Jewish community and its leaders, who accuse Ottawa of political targeting.
“It’s funny how law enforcement in our cities have watched tens of thousands of people illegally protest and harass Jews while the RCMP tells us they want to play global cop and pour resources into finding bogeyman crimes,” said Toronto-based Israel Ellis, whose son Eitan is an Israeli soldier guarding a humanitarian corridor in Gaza....
June 9, 2025 - 16:36 | Special to National Post | National Post